Russia blow away Egypt 3-1, Record second win

Hosts Russia beat Egypt 3-1 for second successive win in the tournament

Russia are virtually in the round of 16 after registering their
second successive win in the tournament. Russia outclassed Mohamed
Salah's Egypt 3-1 in their second Group A match to consolidate their top
position at the points table. All the four goals came in the second
half, after the two sides played out a goalless first half.

90' - Four minutes added as stoppage time

90' - Amr Warda shot it wide of the Russian goal from the top of the box

89' - Corner for Russia. Egypt cleared it comfortably

88' - Salah miscued it wide of the Russian goal from top of the box. Final chance of the match for the Liverpool star?

72' - PENALTY! Salah was brought down. VAR used and the decision stayed. It's a penalty for Egypt.

70' - Abdallah El Said's long ranger went well over the Russian goal

68' - Substitution! Another change for Egypt. Trezeguet is replaced by Ramadan Sobhi

64' - Substitution! Mohamed Elneny is replaced by Amr Warda for Egypt

62' - GOAL! Artem Dzyuba made it 3-0 for Russia

What a goal! Dzyuba chest down the ball at the edge of the area, turned and shot a thunderous strike into the net.

59' - GOAL! Denis Cheryshev doubled the lead for Russia

A brilliant team goal by the Russians. The move from the right flank
was collected by Fernandes and nicely pull back in front of the Egypt
goal. Cheryshev cleared himself from the markers and shot it low into
the net from close range

57' - Yellow Card! Egypt's Trezeguet got the first booking of the night

56' - Another Salah's left-foot attempt, this time a
deflection gave Egypt a corner. And the delivery found no takers and the
ball went pass the Russian goal untouched.

55' - Back-to-back corners for Russia. But it was easily cleared by the Egyptians

53' - Another Russian attack from the left flank. It resulted in a corner for the hosts.

47' - GOAL! Own goal gave Russia the lead

UNLUCKY! The ball deflected from Ahmed Fathy's knee into the goal.
Believe it or not, it's the fifth own goal of the tournament so far. In
the last edition of the FIFA World Cup, a total of only five own goals
were scored. And the record is six own goals during 1998 World Cup. Some
stats.

Second half begins...Who will break the deadlock - Russia or Egypt?

HT - It's goalless at the half-time break in St Petersburg

45' - No stoppage time added in the first half

42' - First clear chance for Salah, he turned around to
beat his marker and shot with his left-foot from top of the Russian
box. The strike went just wide of goal though. Good effort.

41' - Artem Dzyuba head it over the Egypt crossbar.

37' - Denis Cheryshev's tantalising cross-in from the left flank found no takers inside the Egypt box